Top 24 Gustave Courbet Quotes
#1. Painting is an essentially concrete art and can only consist of the representation of real and existing things.
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#2. When I am no longer controversial, I will no longer be important
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#3. The expression of beauty is in direct ratio to the power of conception the artist has acquired.
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#4. When I am dead, let it be said of me: he belonged to no school, to no church, to no institution, to no academy, and least of all, to any regime except the regime of liberty.
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#5. Art or talent, for an artist, is merely a means of applying his personal faculties to the ideas and the things of the period in which he lives.
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#6. I have never seen either angels or goddesses, so I am not interested in painting them.
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#8. I have studied the art of the masters and the art of the moderns, avoiding any preconceived system and without prejudice. I have no more wanted to imitate the former than to copy the latter; nor have I thought of achieving the idle aim of art for art's sake.
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#9. I hope to live all my life for my art, without abandoning my principles one iota.
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#10. To be able to translate the customs, ideas and appearance of my times as I see them - in a word, to create a living art - this has been my aim.
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#11. Beauty lies in nature and reveals, once the artist has perceived it, its own expressive power.
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#12. Titles have never given a just idea of things; were it otherwise, the work would be superfluous.
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#13. Without trying to clear up the degree of correctness of a qualification which no one, one must hope, will be asked to understand exactly, I will limit myself to a few words of explanation to cut short any misunderstandings.
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#15. When we see men of worth, we should think of equalling them; when we see men of a contrary character, we should turn inward and examine ourselves.
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#16. The beautiful is in nature, and it is encountered under the most diverse forms of reality. Once it is found it belongs to art, or rather to the artist who discovers it.
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#17. Painting is the representation of visible forms. The essence of realism is its negation of the ideal.
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#18. I have never seen an angel. Show me an angel, and I'll paint one.
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#19. Art in painting should consist only of the representation of things that are visible and tangible.
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#21. France is the only nation in which astoundingly small numbers of civilized patrons reside.
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#22. I am not one who was born in the custody of wisdom; I am one who is fond of olden times & intense in quest of the sacred knowing of the ancients.
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#23. Art is a wholly physical language whose words are all the visible objects.
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#24. Beauty, like truth, is relative to the time when one lives and to the individual who can grasp it.
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